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It seems like agentic browsers will develop aa new set of core primitives (e.g. always ask for manual approval when spending money), and this flavor of security vulnerability will go away.

Web browsers didn't begin with the same levels of security they have now.

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Agenetic browsers is like a sealing tape fix of a high pressure water pipe - it should not exist.

If you want the agent to do things for you - there is literally zero reason to use a browser instead of an API.

Like 1 bulletproof API call vs clicking and scrolling and captcha and scam stores etc - how can this possibly be a good idea?

There is a very clear way it's an appealing idea (though that doesn't necessarily make it good): the vast majority of content on the web has no API other than the web page. It's not even all that uncommon to have to run Javascript to generate the right requests (say, to do various custom encodings).

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